Subj : Wordstar 7.0 Archive To : All From : Ben Collver Date : Thu Aug 01 2024 14:33:42 My name is Robert J. Sawyer. I'm a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Canadian science-fiction writer. All twenty-five of my novels were written with WordStar, the best word-processing program the world has ever known. WordStar was first introduced in 1978 and the final release--WordStar for DOS 7.0 Rev. D--came out in December 1992. The program has never been updated since, and the company that made it has been defunct for decades; the program is abandonware. But I still use it, and George R.R. Martin uses an earlier version. There has never--until now--been a complete online archive of the final version of the program along with all its manuals. Here it is: Click to download the complete WordStar 7.0 archive I spent weeks putting all this together. The archive contains not just the WordStar program but also extensive resources on how to use it, in addition to fully text-searchable PDFs of the original manuals, totaling over 1,000 pages, scanned from my own copies. Since MS-DOS programs, such as WordStar, can't run under modern operating systems without using an MS-DOS emulator, I've provided two complete plug-and-play packages for running WordStar under Windows, one using DOSBox-X, an emulator that's still actively developed and maintained, and another using vDosPlus, which still works wonderfully but is no longer maintained. .... From: .